Faucet



Patented June 6, |399` E. W. THAYEB.

FAUCET.

(Application lad July 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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ENOS lV. THAYER, OF MEREDITH, NEvV HAMPSHIRE.

FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 626,578, dated June 6, 1899.

Application iiled .Tuly 19, 1898. Serial No. 686,332. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, Enos W. THAYER, of Meredith, in the countyof Belknap and State of New l-lampshire, have invented a new and Improved Faucet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a faucet having a tapering hollow plug, one end of which is open to receive the liquid-supply and the other end of which is provided with an orifice adapted to register with the nozzle of the faucet; and the invention relates particularly to certain means for .giving the plug slight endwise movement immediately preparatory to turning the same, so that friction between the plug and casing is avoided.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of the invention,while the claims define the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l isa longitudinal section of theinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with parts shown in different position and by full lines, and Fig. C3 is a cross-section of the invention.

The faucet has a casing 4,with which a nozzle 5 communicates. A tapering hollow plug G lits within the casing 4. and is arranged to turn therein so as to place the discharge-oriice 7 in and out of registry with the nozzle 5, and thus open or close the faucet. The outer sides of the plug 6 it snugly against the inner walls of the casing 4. The small end of the plug G is solid and projects through the open outer end of the casing 4. Forming part of the plug G and projecting longitudinally from the small end thereof is an arm-8, to which is liXed a handle 9,whereby the arm 8, and consequently the plug 6,maybe turned. Reaching out forward from the front end of the casing Il is a downwardly-exte'nding arm l0, in the outer end of which a headed pin ll is mounted to turn freely. This pin ll carries one end of an outwardly-bowed spring l2, which passes from the pin ll inward to the inner end of the arm 8 and is att-ached thereto. Fulcrumed on the handle 9 and extending through an opening therein so as to cross said handle is a hand-lever 14:, which presses against the outer side of the spring' l2. The spring l2 is provided with a pin 15, which engages an orifice 1G in the head of the handle 9, whereby to guide the movement of the spring l2. If desired, a casing (indicated by dotted lines 17in Figs. l and 2) may be connected with the pin 1l and with the small end of the plug G, so as to inclose the contiguous parts and so as to turn in unison therewith.

In manipulating the faucet the handle 9 is grasped and the lever 14. is drawn toward the handle. This 'lieXes-the spring l2, tending to straighten the same, and the result is that the plug 6 is pushed slightly inward, so as to relieve its sides from forcible contact with the interior of the casing 1l, such contact being normally maintained by the pressure of Huid against the plug. The plug may now be easily turned.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A faucet having a casing with a tapering bore and with a nozzle disposed transversely to the bore, a tapering hollow plug fitted in the bore to turn and slide the plug having a transversely-disposed orifice formed therein to register with the nozzle, and means in connection with the plug whereby to slide and turn the plug.

2. The combination of a casing, a tapering plug therein, an arm reaching out from the casing, a bowed spring bearing against the arm and against the plug, a handle in connection with the plug to turn the same, and a lever fulcrumed on the handle and engaging the spring to flex the spring and slide the plug.

3. The combination of a casing, a plug mounted to turn therein, an arm attached to the casing, a spring bearing between the arm and plug, and means for turning the plug and for exing the spring.

4. The combination of a casing, a plug turning therein, an arm reaching out from .the casing, and a bowed spring bearing between the arm and plug, the spring upon being flexed being capable of sliding the plug.

5. The combination of a casing, a plug mounted to turn therein, and a bowed spring ICO pressing the bowed spring, whereby said bearing against the plug, the spring upon spring is {iexed simultaneously with the opv being iiexed being capable of sliding the plug.

6. The combination of aoasing, aplug turneration of the handle. ing therein, a bowed spring bearing against 5 the plug and capable when flexed. of sliding lVitnessesz the plug, an operating-.handle attached to the T. L. WODLEIGH, plug, and a lever fulolumed on the plug and ENOS WV. THA'YER.

DANIEL E. EATON. 

